Review: The Lives of Eliza Lynch, Scandal and Courage,
I was invited to São Paulo by the Author, former Irish ambassador to the United Nations Michael Lillis, to attend the book launch of the Brazilian Portuguese version of their book. It was refreshing to see that even in the twenty-first century, this shadowy heroine is still capable of eliciting a fiery debate.
Copenhagen: “About the What Kind of People We Want to Be”
Five days ago I returned to South America to gather my thoughts. Back from Denmark, people ask what I had seen in Copenhagen. Most of those asking were short on hope and long on fear, there were still a few […]
When all is said and done in Carbon-hagen
Wednesday December 16th, “Reclaim Power” day in Copenhagen, inside the Africans are shouting at the Ethiopians and outside the Climate Justice advocates are shouting at the COP who they accuse of being co-opted by corporate lobbyists. To a lobbyist climate […]
It happened before in Denmark, a Viking story
The lobbyists in Copenhagen are paid by organizations who don’t agree with . They sleep in five star hotels renamed “Bright Green” for the show. Quarterly results blur their vision. They don’t go to museums any more.
Naomi Klein opens Kilmaforum09 in Copenhagen, the People’s Climate summit
Naomi Klein was in fine form as she opened the Klimaforum09 counter-conference in Copenhagen Monday night 7/12. She gave a keynote opening speech to open the summit of ecological NGO?s that bills itself as The People?s Climate Summit.
Callout from Copenhagen
Hello from Denmark, Decided to come freeze my little tush off in Copenhagen for eleven days for global warming (COP-15, look it up). Sounds like fun? Well, sort of! Anyway I’m writing articles for a few people here and I […]
The Southern Bank / Banco del Sur un paso adelante
Públicados en “Americas Program” Una Nueva arquitectura finaciera para América Latina traducido por Annette RamosPartes I y II Tony PhillipsParte uno y dos de una series de dos que escribí sobre NAFR (La Nueva Arquitectura Financiera para América del Sur […]